Using the developer licence for a PoC for a for-profit company

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Hello,

I’m unclear about what “non commercial use” means in the context of the Tyk On-Premises Developer Licence. The terms and conditions don’t define it, and there seems to be wide variation in its interpretation.

Does this licence allow a single developer in a for-profit corporation to install Tyk on her/his local machine to try it out in a proof of concept?

Thanks,

Kamal

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Hi Kamal

Yes that’s correct.

You are absolutely fine to install and use a single-node Dev licence for the purpose of a PoC. In fact, you can get as many licences as you need for your evaluation.

The move to a commercial licence will come once your evaluation is completed, and you made the decision to deploy Tyk to production environment. Then you will need to obtain a Pro licence for 1, 2 or Unlimited nodes. Also consider how you want to provision any Non-Production environments: Staging, UAT etc.

Finally, don’t forget that any Pro licence also comes with access to our excellent Helpdesk, which has even faster replies than our community site! This could be useful for assisting your PoC

Andrew & the team at Tyk

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Thanks, Andrew!

What do you mean by, “Also consider how you want to provision any Non-Production environments: Staging, UAT etc.”? Would those environments need a pro licence as well?

Kamal

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Hi Kamal

The choice is yours. It is possible to add multiple environments/organisations on the same licence (e.g. Tyk Pro Unlimited) however they would share the same MongoDB. We call this API sharding.

Or you can get another Pro licence for you Staging/UAT etc which would be completely isolated and have its own DB & Redis.

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Alright. Thanks for the clarification.

Regards,

Kamal